The Best of April’s Reading

April was a quiet reading month but May promises to be much busier with Crimefest taking place in two weeks time. It’s always a great opportunity to catch up with writers, reviewers, bloggers and readers and there will be plenty of updates on this blog.

My book of the month for April is a surprise. I was looking forward to reading Fred Vargas’s Dog Will Have His Daybut, while I found it an enjoyable read, it wasn’t one of her best. Instead, a book by an’new to me’ writer, Massimo Carlotto, was by far my favourite read this month. At the End of a Dull Day has sly humour and dark violence in equal measure and it was good to be taken out of my comfort zone.

I’m thinking of going to the new-ish Scottish one in Stirling – I think it’s around September. And I’d love to go to the Edinburgh Book Festival, which would be easier, as I have friends I can stay with there. I can imagine the rammy that would cause at home though – the amount I spend on books is already a bone of contention! (and that’s not counting the ones on Kindle he doesn’t know about lol!)

Sarah – Isn’t it great when a new-to-you author surprises you? I’m glad you enjoyed the Carlotto; may give that one a go myself. And I hope you’ll have a wonderful time at Crimefest. One day I’ll get there….

I think I feel a bit better about my reading having seen your numbers. (I do fret irrationally over the stats! Plus your work is a lot more demanding timewise and mentally I would hazard.) Griffiths and Bilal I will probably not read because of the size of the stacks. Vargas I haven’t yet read but she’s lurking. Carlotto – I read Master of Knots and The Fugitive a few years ago, so its a possible! Good Luck for May and looking forward to your reports from Crimefest.

Glad there’s others with as much to read as me…my other half bought me a Kindle Fire in the hope it’d reduce the piles of books in the house – that didn’t work, plus he has no idea how many are on the Kindle too….!